Re: [newbie]

2002-05-31 Thread Bill Spatz
Must be really dim, 3 days ago I sent him a private mail on how to do it, including your line! Bill On Friday 31 May 2002 11:04 pm, you wrote: > How did you get on it? > > Miark > > "alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > > How do I get off this list -- The box said Windows95 or better, so I inst

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras and Linux

2002-05-31 Thread Simon Matthews
You could try www.gphoto.net If you find that your camera works under gphoto2, you can install it off the distribution CDs On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 21:03, Terry S. wrote: > I thought I had remembered seeing this in a few previous posts, but > can't quite remember. Is there a website that lists wh

Re: [newbie]

2002-05-31 Thread Miark
How did you get on it? Miark "alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > How do I get off this list Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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Re: [newbie] Thrown off the list ?

2002-05-31 Thread ollyplaine
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:08:41PM -0400, D. Olson wrote: > On Friday 31 May 2002 09:50 pm, you wrote:(first couple of lines from > Haj) > > On the other hand : maybe I just screwed something up in my post. Something > > that the internet can't digest. - Like spam ??? > > Well, I can't digest spa

[newbie] mandrakeupdate

2002-05-31 Thread n1uan2
HI I been trying to use the mandrakeupdate and it seems it is going to good i add an source and download it and when i go to get the updates it saids what version i have installed and it shows there is an newer version but it always said not found can anyone please help and tell me step by step

Re: [newbie] where are user docs for wv?

2002-05-31 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 10:39, dunc wrote: > Can anyone kill my frustration please? > > I have selected wv when I installed 8.2 but have not been able to > find/use the docs for this. > So unfortunately I cant try to configure or use the program and cant > seem to get it to start. > > Ideally I want t

Re: [newbie] Compiling Permission?

2002-05-31 Thread Barry Michels
Unfortunately the permissions reset themselves after a reboot, so I had to add myself to the ctools group. Now it works all the time. - Original Message - From: "Barry Michels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Compiling

Re: [newbie] Thrown off the list ?

2002-05-31 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 31 May 2002 09:50 pm, you wrote: > On the other hand : maybe I just screwed something up in my post. Something > that the internet can't digest. - Like spam ??? Well, I can't digest spam myself, so there ya go. ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www

Re: [newbie] Thrown off the list ?

2002-05-31 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 01 June 2002 02:49 am, shane wrote: > On Friday 31 May 2002 01:39 pm, Kaj Haulrich did speak unto the huddled > > masses, saying: > > Two days ago I posted a question of my own, concerning spam. Maybe that's > > the reason ? - Maybe the list has some "filter" who react to the phrase >

Re: [newbie] What is openfind?

2002-05-31 Thread Jon Doe
On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 08:04:56 -0500 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > found these websites < > http://home.sina.com.hk/service/about/press/article45.html > > < LOL, highest quality Chinese websites? My site is 100% english. Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandr

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux / NSA

2002-05-31 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 06:03 pm, FemmeFatale did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > Heh, i've followed teh Intelligence community for years now. YEs they > can crack PGP but they can't crack it if the encryption alogrithm is > high enough. Sa

Re: [newbie] no such file or directory?

2002-05-31 Thread jbarron201
Thank,s Charles yes I do have a firewall but not worried about the win2k system took it down to try connect after not getting the pop up to set up a port was worried about the Mandrake box didn,t figure out how to turn it off it is set on standard .I,ve got a book for 8.1 comeing tomorrow afternoo

Re: [newbie] where are user docs for wv?

2002-05-31 Thread civileme
dunc wrote: >Can anyone kill my frustration please? > >I have selected wv when I installed 8.2 but have not been able to >find/use the docs for this. >So unfortunately I cant try to configure or use the program and cant >seem to get it to start. > >Ideally I want to be able to get netscape 4.7 t

Re: [newbie] Instant Messengers

2002-05-31 Thread mike
Warren Post wrote: > > Jabber (see jabber.org) and it's various front ends, such as Gabber. > -- > Warren Post > Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras > http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ > > On 31 May 2002 00:37:13 +0100 > Matt Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anybody know which (if any) instant m

Re: [newbie] Thrown off the list ?

2002-05-31 Thread FemmeFatale
Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Hi all - > > Please forgive me for waisting your bandwidth. > After about - what - half a year on the list, I'm suddenly "censored out". > Don't know why - to many beers and cheers maybe ? > Makes me kind'a sad, though. I think this list is very unique, informative, > hel

Re: [newbie] NSA / PGP

2002-05-31 Thread FemmeFatale
daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Fri, 31 May 2002, shane wrote: > > > On Friday 31 May 2002 11:26 am, daRcmaTTeR did speak unto the huddled > > > i'm quite sure you're correct. > > > > i doubt that. it is simply a matter of raw math. > > http://senderek.de/security/secret-key.protection.html > > > > i

Re: [newbie] What is openfind?

2002-05-31 Thread mike
Charlie wrote: > > May 31, 2002 04:12 pm,Jon Doe wrote: > > Anyone know what openfind is? I found this is my apache logs: > > > > 66.237.60.30 - - [31/May/2002:00:09:07 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 2438 > > 66.237.60.30 - - [31/May/2002:00:09:07 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 2438 > > "-" "Openfind d

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux / NSA

2002-05-31 Thread FemmeFatale
Miark wrote: > > I'm sure the NSA could crack any PGP e-mail in a minute or two > if they wanted to. > > Miark > > shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > > > On Friday 31 May 2002 09:47 am, Tony S. Sykes did speak unto the huddled > > masses, saying: > > > > > My guess is, the more secure the desk

Re: [newbie] Lock up/ Shut off all internet capability?

2002-05-31 Thread civileme
db wrote: >For reasons to long to describe, I must run Redhat 5.2 as one boot along >with Mandrake 8.2 on another. When the machine is booted to Redhat 5.2 >there is no need for network connectivity and I am worried about it getting >hacked. Making it secure with a firewall/etc would probably b

Re: [newbie] Unreal

2002-05-31 Thread FemmeFatale
daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Thu, 30 May 2002, s wrote: > > > On Friday 31 May 2002 12:00 am, D. Olson wrote: > > > On Friday 31 May 2002 12:17 am, you wrote: > > > > It is the Loki release for Linux, right? If so, then grab it. Works great > > > > with my Geforce here > > > > > > No, someone ha

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-31 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 03:37 pm, Carroll Grigsby did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > First, given the current emphasis on TCO, you haven't included the labor > hours expended on this disaster. Be sure to include all of the planning > meetings

Re: [newbie] Thrown off the list ?

2002-05-31 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 01:39 pm, Kaj Haulrich did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > Two days ago I posted a question of my own, concerning spam. Maybe that's > the reason ? - Maybe the list has some "filter" who react to the phrase > "spam" ?

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-31 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 04:39 pm, Carroll Grigsby did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > BTW, was there ever any consensus as to whether Marc should buy some > Mandrake stock? well i don't know about Marc, but when my 401 rolls over i am spendi

Re: [newbie] Instant Messengers

2002-05-31 Thread Warren Post
Jabber (see jabber.org) and it's various front ends, such as Gabber. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On 31 May 2002 00:37:13 +0100 Matt Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know which (if any) instant messengers are compatible with > MSM Mess

Re: [newbie] Strange problem with the mouse/screen

2002-05-31 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 01 June 2002 01:05 am, Matt Blake wrote: > Every now and again using any windows manager - mainly gnome or kde, i > get a strange problem with the mouse - it is as if the area the mouse > can move in shifts 2cm to the right but the actual screen stays in the > same place. So for examp

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-31 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 31 May 2002 06:30 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:24, Robin wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 19:26, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > > On Friday 31 May 2002 10:34 am, Shane wrote: > > > > On Thursday 30 May 2002 12:48 pm, Anne Wilson did speak unto the > > > > huddled > > > > > > > >

Re: [newbie] What is openfind?

2002-05-31 Thread Charlie
May 31, 2002 04:12 pm,Jon Doe wrote: > Anyone know what openfind is? I found this is my apache logs: > > 66.237.60.30 - - [31/May/2002:00:09:07 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 2438 > 66.237.60.30 - - [31/May/2002:00:09:07 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 2438 > "-" "Openfind data gatherer, > Openbot/3.0+([

Re: [newbie] Strange problem with the mouse/screen

2002-05-31 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i do not recall the fix for sure, but i think you need to change the software cursor setting in the XFreeconfig. you might want to look in the archives as this was covered not long ago at all. On Friday 31 May 2002 04:05 pm, Matt Blake did speak u

Re: [newbie] where are user docs for wv?

2002-05-31 Thread Derek Jennings
wv is an application which AFAIK gets called up by other applications such as Abiword. So when you open a Word document in Abiword it will use wv to do the translation for you. However wv/Abiword does not support the more exotic Word features so do not expect documents to translate perfectly. A

[newbie] where are user docs for wv?

2002-05-31 Thread dunc
Can anyone kill my frustration please? I have selected wv when I installed 8.2 but have not been able to find/use the docs for this. So unfortunately I cant try to configure or use the program and cant seem to get it to start. Ideally I want to be able to get netscape 4.7 to open word docs and

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-31 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 31 May 2002 04:29 pm, shane wrote: > On Thursday 30 May 2002 12:28 pm, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled > > masses, saying: > > > 9 months later some jack@ss from the district office formatted the > > > harddrives because "we don't have a license for that OS!" > > > > You must have

Re: [newbie] Divx movies -- yes or no?!

2002-05-31 Thread Vincent Colombo
DivX is not the same as the now defunct Circuit City DVD competitor wannabe Divx. DivX (also called DivX:), I believe it is) is a form of video compression. So no, you can not play your Circuit City Divx disc on Linux (or anywhere else for that matter). At least you have a nice Abyss coaster. ;)

Re: [newbie] no such file or directory?

2002-05-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 31 May 2002 17:12:40 -0700 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > first thank,s a bunch for you guys that have help and put up with me > trying to configure my linux box.I finally got time to use the advice > i was given the other on configureing my internet connect in knosole > root cat/etc/resolv

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-31 Thread Azrael
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:24, Robin wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 19:26, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Friday 31 May 2002 10:34 am, Shane wrote: > > > On Thursday 30 May 2002 12:48 pm, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled > > > > > > masses, saying: > > > > Perhaps we need some sort of directory

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-31 Thread Robin
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 19:26, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Friday 31 May 2002 10:34 am, Shane wrote: > > On Thursday 30 May 2002 12:48 pm, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled > > > > masses, saying: > > > Perhaps we need some sort of directory of such help. There must be > > > someone here in We

Re: [newbie] Thrown off the list ?

2002-05-31 Thread shane
On Friday 31 May 2002 12:53 pm, Kaj Haulrich did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > Please forgive me for waisting your bandwidth. > After about - what - half a year on the list, I'm suddenly "censored > out". Don't know why - to many beers and cheers maybe ? > Makes me kind'a sad, though.

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread shane
On Friday 31 May 2002 11:10 am, Miark did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > "Unlike proprietary software, open source software does not make the > underlying code of a software confidential. ah security by obscurity! the number of ways it is wrong are endless! -- "Doing my part to pis

[newbie] Thrown off the list ?

2002-05-31 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Hi all - Please forgive me for waisting your bandwidth. After about - what - half a year on the list, I'm suddenly "censored out". Don't know why - to many beers and cheers maybe ? Makes me kind'a sad, though. I think this list is very unique, informative, helpful and - sometimes - amusing. So

Re: [newbie] NSA / PGP

2002-05-31 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 8:36 pm, shane wrote: > i doubt that. it is simply a matter of raw math. > http://senderek.de/security/secret-key.protection.html > > in short if they had a super computer than can only be imagined today > (not built) it would

Re: [newbie] NSA / PGP

2002-05-31 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 31 May 2002, shane wrote: > On Friday 31 May 2002 11:26 am, daRcmaTTeR did speak unto the huddled > masses, saying: > > > On Fri, 31 May 2002, Miark wrote: > > > I'm sure the NSA could crack any PGP e-mail in a minute or two > > > if they wanted to. > > > > > > Miark > > > > i'm quite s

Re: [newbie] NSA / PGP

2002-05-31 Thread shane
On Friday 31 May 2002 11:26 am, daRcmaTTeR did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > On Fri, 31 May 2002, Miark wrote: > > I'm sure the NSA could crack any PGP e-mail in a minute or two > > if they wanted to. > > > > Miark > > i'm quite sure you're correct. i doubt that. it is simply a matt

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Miark wrote: > On the other hand, I bet ol' Billy is grinnin' like a chesire cat over > this filth: > > "..the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution outlines how open source might > facilitate efforts to disrupt or sabotage electronic commerce, air > traffic control or even s

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 7:10 pm, Miark wrote: > "..the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution outlines how open source > might facilitate efforts to disrupt or sabotage electronic commerce, > air traffic control or even sensitive surveillance systems. > > "

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux / NSA

2002-05-31 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Miark wrote: > I'm sure the NSA could crack any PGP e-mail in a minute or two > if they wanted to. > > Miark > > i'm quite sure you're correct. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- "If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason!" ---

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread Miark
On the other hand, I bet ol' Billy is grinnin' like a chesire cat over this filth: "..the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution outlines how open source might facilitate efforts to disrupt or sabotage electronic commerce, air traffic control or even sensitive surveillance systems. "Unlike proprie

Re: [newbie] Divx movies -- yes or no?!

2002-05-31 Thread Ralph Slooten
By "old Divx movies.." you are referring to DivX 3.x ? Yeah sure... afaik all players for linux that support DivX can play it well. I personally use MPlayer, which supports something like 50 different formats, including all versions of DivX (even the latest 5.something), asf, mpg and so on. The

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread Charlie
May 31, 2002 10:37 am,daRcmaTTeR wrote: > this is incredibly interesting. where does one find the files to compile > the NSA's version of Linux. I'd love to take a look at this system. ~~ http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Cana

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux / NSA

2002-05-31 Thread Miark
I'm sure the NSA could crack any PGP e-mail in a minute or two if they wanted to. Miark shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > On Friday 31 May 2002 09:47 am, Tony S. Sykes did speak unto the huddled > masses, saying: > > > My guess is, the more secure the desktops the better, but your email >

[newbie] Divx movies -- yes or no?!

2002-05-31 Thread Miark
I've been to many sites trying to figure out if these old Divx movies can be played in Linux, but I can't seem to find a straight answer. Can they, or can't they? If so, how? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Compiling Permission?

2002-05-31 Thread Barry Michels
Awesome! I changed the permissions yesterday, but on the wrong file. I had to follow the links from gcc to /etc/alternatives and then back to gcc-2.96 to figure out which one to change. Had to do the same thing with c++ > /etc/alternatives > g++-2.96. Thanks - Original Message - Fr

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Friday 31 May 2002 10:55 am, Miark wrote: > > > I find it interesting that they made no mention of the efforts of > > > the NSA to develop a very very secure linux or the adjustments > > > necessary to the standards to accommodate it. It is about as

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread shane
On Friday 31 May 2002 09:47 am, Tony S. Sykes did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > My guess is, the more secure the desktops the better, but your email > messages are ours for the taking. behold the magic of pgp! :) i rarely use it, but it is nice to have when it makes you feel safe.

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 31 May 2002 11:02 am, civileme wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > I've never had a problem with ReiserFS loaded as a module > > with /boot being ReiserFS (or XFS). I see this "/boot can't be > > Reiser", or even "/boot must be ext2" all the time. I don't know > > where it comes from,

Re: [newbie] Compiling Permission?

2002-05-31 Thread K Montgomery
If your question is as it sounds, your user account obviously needs to have executable access. Typing ls -l `which gcc` should show you the existing permissions on the file. You can either make gcc executable by other (chmod o+x `which gcc`) so that all users can run it, or you can make it group

[newbie] Lock up/ Shut off all internet capability?

2002-05-31 Thread db
For reasons to long to describe, I must run Redhat 5.2 as one boot along with Mandrake 8.2 on another. When the machine is booted to Redhat 5.2 there is no need for network connectivity and I am worried about it getting hacked. Making it secure with a firewall/etc would probably be difficult in

Re: [newbie] Unreal

2002-05-31 Thread D. Olson
Quake or Quake 2? I have a tutorial on my site for Quake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] (Most) Linuxes unite

2002-05-31 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 31 May 2002 09:56 am, you wrote: > From what I have read they are not interested in the desktop side > anyway, only the server. Also Mandrake have been contacted, but after > the signing of the deal, but the same time as redhat. > > Tony. Well, it doesn't matter because they invite any

Re: [newbie] 2 Q's about KWord: persistent margin settings; word count feature

2002-05-31 Thread Damian G
> > I've use kword for some time now and found it quite reliable. > I forget where kword sets margins, but I never bother with that > anyway. I want all my printer output set within margins and use the > device the distro gives you for that.That used to be qtcups, alas, > someone thought it a

RE: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread Tony S. Sykes
My guess is, the more secure the desktops the better, but your email messages are ours for the taking. -Original Message- From: daRcmaTTeR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 5:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux On Fri, 31 May 2

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 31 May 2002, civileme wrote: > Miark wrote: > > >>I find it interesting that they made no mention of the efforts of the > >>NSA to develop a very very secure linux or the adjustments necessary to > >>the standards to accommodate it. It is about as spy-proof as software > >>gets by th

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 31 May 2002 10:55 am, Miark wrote: > > I find it interesting that they made no mention of the efforts of > > the NSA to develop a very very secure linux or the adjustments > > necessary to the standards to accommodate it. It is about as > > spy-proof as software gets by the spies themse

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-31 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 31 May 2002 10:34 am, Shane wrote: > On Thursday 30 May 2002 12:48 pm, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled > > masses, saying: > > Perhaps we need some sort of directory of such help. There must be > > someone here in West Yorkshire, but I've not come across him/her. > > if we did ha

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread civileme
Miark wrote: >>I find it interesting that they made no mention of the efforts of the >>NSA to develop a very very secure linux or the adjustments necessary to >>the standards to accommodate it. It is about as spy-proof as software >>gets by the spies themselves... NSA has issued a completed

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-31 Thread civileme
Tom Brinkman wrote: >On Thursday 30 May 2002 05:13 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > >>On Thu, 30 May 2002 22:50, et wrote: >> >>>the file system for / and /boot need to be compiled into the >>>kernal, not loaded as a module, that was (as I understand it) the >>>reason not to use reiserFS for those part

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread Miark
> I find it interesting that they made no mention of the efforts of the > NSA to develop a very very secure linux or the adjustments necessary to > the standards to accommodate it. It is about as spy-proof as software > gets by the spies themselves... NSA has issued a completed source for >

[newbie] phpSysInfo question

2002-05-31 Thread Barry Michels
http://www.barrymichels.com/phpSysInfo-2.0/ This script will show data right after a reboot, for about an hour or so, then N/A's everywhere. Any ideas why? I've searched through their forums, but they don't help. Their main suggestion is not to run php in safe mode, but I don't. I've tried re

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread civileme
Michael Adams wrote: >On Fri, 31 May 2002 19:29, Brian Koppe wrote: > >>I don't understand the concept behind a United Linux distribution, BUT I >>do think it would be wonderful if all the Linux distros would get >>together in concert and decide on unified standards. There are too many >>differe

[newbie] Xine question...

2002-05-31 Thread darklord
I looked thru the archives, and on Xines' Sourcforge site, but couldn't find the info I wanted... I did install all the plugins that came with Mandrake 8.2. Is there a plugin for Xine that will allow it to do menu navigation like Ogle? I did figure out how to use "Nav" to pick individual files

Re: [newbie] Unreal

2002-05-31 Thread darklord
On Friday 31 May 2002 01:00 am, you wrote: > On Friday 31 May 2002 12:17 am, you wrote: > > It is the Loki release for Linux, right? If so, then grab it. Works great > > with my Geforce here > > No, someone hacked the UT installer and made it so you can use Unreal in > Linux now too. I am told

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread shane
On Friday 31 May 2002 04:12 am, Michael Adams did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > So, one question comes to mind. > > Would the United liberation front ;-) support the SuSe alternative to > RPM's? or connectives port of apt? or maybe urpmi? no, none of those. the pres of caldera re

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread shane
On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:32 pm, Franki did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > If it goes ahead as planned, it could hurt mandrake long term... (if they > don't join) on the other hand it is basically 1 distro with merit, 1 new comer without, and 2 that died and started stinking some ti

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-31 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 30 May 2002 8:48 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > OK - but in Wins, I can manage most things, and visit a friendly > professional for paid help when I'm really stuck. Where do I find a > similar expert in linux, where I could take my box in on a

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-31 Thread shane
On Thursday 30 May 2002 12:48 pm, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > Perhaps we need some sort of directory of such help. There must be > someone here in West Yorkshire, but I've not come across him/her. if we did have a directory of such things it might look like this h

Re: [newbie] How to fax a document?

2002-05-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 31 May 2002 2:50 pm, Manuel Soto wrote: > But, how can I make the pseudo printer. I have efax & cups and fax2cups > but I don know how to create a pseudo printer. > Isn't it already there? Just look in KDE Control Centre>System>Printing Manager The bottom device in the list is 'Send to

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 30 May 2002 05:13 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2002 22:50, et wrote: > > the file system for / and /boot need to be compiled into the > > kernal, not loaded as a module, that was (as I understand it) the > > reason not to use reiserFS for those partitions. however in later

Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?

2002-05-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 30 May 2002 8:10 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > Quote from O'Reilly's Samba book: > Gosh.. you are keen. ;-) > "If you are presented with a dialog requesting the password for a user > IPC$, then Samba did not accept the password that was sent from the > client." > > I presume this means t

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-31 Thread Marc
> >OK - but in Wins, I can manage most things, and visit a friendly >professional for paid help when I'm really stuck. Where do I find a >similar expert in linux, where I could take my box in on a Saturday >morning and spend an hour or two watching, talking, listening and learning? > >Perhaps

RE: [newbie] (Most) Linuxes unite

2002-05-31 Thread Tony S. Sykes
>From what I have read they are not interested in the desktop side anyway, only the server. Also Mandrake have been contacted, but after the signing of the deal, but the same time as redhat. Tony. -Original Message- From: Robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 12:42

[newbie] KMail addressbook backups / LM8.2

2002-05-31 Thread John Richard Smith
I had no trouble creating my kmail addressbook from my old netscape.ldif file. Since then of course I have gone on to create more new addresses. I back up to the kab file in home/.kde/share/apps/kab/addressbook.kab and subsequently restore it via the kmail-file-addressbook -import etc but thi

Re: [newbie] How to fax a document?

2002-05-31 Thread Manuel Soto
But, how can I make the pseudo printer. I have efax & cups and fax2cups but I don know how to create a pseudo printer. MS On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 08:53, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:39 pm, Josef Lowder wrote: > > What are the quickest, easiest, and/or best ways to send a fax f

Re: [newbie] Creating cds using gcombust from ISO image?

2002-05-31 Thread Chris Spackman
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 16:18, Jerry wrote: > OK.. i figured if i told gcombust to use an existing image (an .ISO) > (2nd option on the burn tab... just below Data files/no image) it woul d > create a disk extracting individual files from this image.. wrong? i > guess so since when it was done i li

Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?

2002-05-31 Thread Derek Jennings
Sorry for the delay replying Anne I was busy upgrading to KDE3.01 (its very nice) SNIP > > Ping - the situation is complicated, when Mdk is running. Under W2K > serving ping is OK and reasonable speed. Under Mdk, however - > > From W98 m/cs - ping by number is fast and returns 1 ms round trip.

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 30 May 2002 8:48 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > shane wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:44 pm, Damian G did speak unto the huddled > > masses, saying: > > > > another part of the problem is that since the sooftware can be obtained > > free, the support by those who (usually) know it bes

Re: [newbie] How to fax a document?

2002-05-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:39 pm, Josef Lowder wrote: > What are the quickest, easiest, and/or best ways to send a fax from > Mandrake Linux 8.1? > > 1. Is it possible to fax a text file directly from the command line? How? > > 2. How does one setup the system to fax a document as a print output f

Re: [newbie] Open Office 1.0 Printing problem

2002-05-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 30 May 2002 2:21 pm, Roland Hughes wrote: > Is anyone having printing problems with OO1.0. I can print out of every > other app but nothing comes out of OO. I have set the printers up and it > will see the printers I have set up under the cups print system but > nothing is queued up ev

Re: [newbie] Unreal

2002-05-31 Thread Brian Koppe
> > >Well, I was talking about Unreal. If I had been talking about Unreal >Tournament, I would have said UT or Unreal Tournament. > > > Ok, that's what I thought - I was thrown off by your mention of the UT_GOTY CD's Thanks -- Brian says: Use Mozilla for your browsing, e-mail, and IRC needs

Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux

2002-05-31 Thread Brian Koppe
I don't understand the concept behind a United Linux distribution, BUT I do think it would be wonderful if all the Linux distros would get together in concert and decide on unified standards. There are too many differences with how they work. Granted, there will always be things that each di

[newbie] Creating cds using gcombust from ISO image?

2002-05-31 Thread Jerry
OK.. i figured if i told gcombust to use an existing image (an .ISO) (2nd option on the burn tab... just below Data files/no image) it woul d create a disk extracting individual files from this image.. wrong? i guess so since when it was done i listed the contents of the cd and it was an exact co